Dalit Rights Quotes

Untouchables are treated as if less than beasts …. Untouchability for me is more insufferable than British rule. If Hinduism hugs Untouchability, then Hinduism is dead and gone.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

It's a historic moment for the Dalits of Punjab that party has released Dalit manifesto giving voice to their issues and concerns.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

There were no clippings of Ambedkar. The only thing I had was a two-and-a-half minute film which I saw countless times. Nobody knows how he walked, how he spoke, or how he behaved. I had to conceive all those things in my mind. I had to work a lot on the make-up, too.

I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

The state government should devote special attention to safeguard their rights. The rights of the Dalits in Vedaranyam, Karur and other parts of Tamil Nadu should be protected by the state government.